the prime minister of iraq tells a german magazine that he backs your opponent's plan for withdrawing troops from that country; and

when the iraqi government tries to walk back that support, it does so unconvincingly.

meanwhile the gods of cable snafus swooped in for the cruel kill:

alex witt: ok, peter, i want you to take a listen to what john mccain said this weekend in his radio address, get you to react. peter, listen up ...

[cut to video of the joker from "the dark knight"]

... uhh well, actually that was, uhh ... the joker. so we’re not gonna go there. there’s no parallel there that we want to, uh, make any sort of, uhh ... you know where i’m going with that. that was bad.